Lolita

Regular price
Unit price
per

Taboo romance explored through poetic language

Lolita is a classic novel that depicts the taboo romance between the middle-aged Humbert Humbert and his landlady's young daughter, Lolita. It captures the disturbing and dark desires of the protagonist through poetic language. This book explores the complexities of human relationships and is recommended to readers who enjoy thought-provoking and controversial literature.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1959)
  • Premios Fervenzas Literarias for Traducción (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Lolita

Regular price
Unit price
per
Condition guide

Save 10% On This Item as a Thryft Club Member

Join Thryft Club for S$30/year and enjoy 10% off everything, plus S$10 off your first order. Join now →

ISBN: 9780297858805
Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
Date of Publication: 2009-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Romance, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 840879 readers)

Description

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
 

Taboo romance explored through poetic language

Lolita is a classic novel that depicts the taboo romance between the middle-aged Humbert Humbert and his landlady's young daughter, Lolita. It captures the disturbing and dark desires of the protagonist through poetic language. This book explores the complexities of human relationships and is recommended to readers who enjoy thought-provoking and controversial literature.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1959)
  • Premios Fervenzas Literarias for Traducción (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.